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B2007.005.5.228
[interior view, likely inside sod house; woman with woven grass matt; Honey Maid Graham cracker box at left]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2010.023.614a
(Fig 104)(boy in center wears an old style cap worn by Nunivak men and boys. The man was the carpenter building the first school at Mekoryuk in 1959)(Van, Stone James W Nunivak Island Eskimo Technology and material Culture)
Collection: B2010.023
B2007.005.6.B18
[man standing by the entrance of underground house]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2007.005.6.B12
[man standing by three large poles submerged in the ice]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2010.023.613a
(fig 103)(Elderly man wearing squirrel skin parka and sealskin pants 1937)
Keywords: alaska native
Collection: B2010.023
B2015.007.137
[Alaska Native man wearing Western style clothing and driving cap posed next to wood-plank building]
Collection: B2015.007
B2022.003.59
G 103 84, Jacob Tshukfagsolik [Yup’ik individual sitting on stairs]
Keywords: Alaska, BIPOC, Indigenous, Yup'ik, Joseph Tshukfagsolik, Flannel, Boots
Collection: B2022.003 Temkin
B1989.016.1628.1
(Hewitt's Drug Store, Interior) [with lunch counter at left, displays at right]
Keywords: businesses
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2007.005.6.B21
[native man working on a kayak inside a house, ribs struts and coaming complete]
Keywords: sea kayak
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B1991.046.17
Hooper Bay, 7/51 [eight Alaska Native men and women posed on ship deck]
Collection: B1991.046
B1995.014.104.1
[tractor pulling sled loaded with supplies stopped on winter road, four soldiers with tractor]
Keywords: military, transportation
Collection: B1995.014
B2005.013.363
Omukumiut, July ’49 [Alaska Native woman weaving basket, seated outside barabara, two other people at right, Umkumiut?]
Collection: B2005.013
B1998.014.1.1221
"O56 Alaskan Cache, Tok Road" (Cache / A trappers on Tok Rd; 1948) [same as .1220; copy neg removed to freezer - emulsion separting from base]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2150.12
Alaska, Merry Christmas, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Wells and Charles. Thomas Kodagraph Shop, Anchorage [greeting card mock-up with sketch of bear with photograph of glacier and terminal lake. copy neg, mock-up clipped to copy stand with clothespins]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1991.046.15
Hooper Bay, 7/51 [Schaver posed outdoors holding medical kit, Alaska Native man standing at right]
Collection: B1991.046
B1998.014.1.1222
(O57 A fisherman's cabin @ Seward.) [structure built alongside rock outcroppings, stovepipe, barrels, clothesline, laundry, tarpaper on roof, horseshoe above door beach, shore, Resurrection Bay; structures and snow on ground in distance at right.]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2015.008.257
3 5 92425 Port Wells_Duck Hunting on Coghill Flats
Keywords: port wells, prince william sound, hunting, glaciers, marsh
Collection: B2015.008
B1985.027.2442
Eskimos--Hunting. [Man hunting seal in Northern Alaska] Photo by Frank Whaley.
Keywords: Animals, hunting
Collection: B1985.027 Wien Collection
B1973.096.27
Plate 714_The Muskrat Hunter-Kotzebue_From Copyright Photograph1928 by E S Curtis_Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge, Mass [Native man posing for the camera sitting in a kyak amongst marsh grasses]
Collection: B1973.096
B2017.024.1313
21. Hunter returns empty-handed, Diomede. Photographer's number: 01520 [man walking away from camera across ice, carrying spear and hunting bag, 1960s]
Collection: B2017.024
B2018.021.621
Kodiak? 50s [fishing boat Adalee at warehouse dock, man standing on dock, breakwater at left, large buildings on hillside in background]
Collection: B2018.021
B2005.013.128
C.G. & F.P. & Eskimo sod house, Hooper Bay, 7-1951 [Clarence and another white man standing with Alaska Native family outside wood dwelling with sod roof]
Collection: B2005.013
B1995.010.4929
[man wearing fur parka, fingerless gloves, and eyeglasses dancing on stage, Kotzebue; print date Jul 70]
Collection: B1995.010
B1973.079.98
[group of men pushing a rail cart down railroad tracks that is also being pulled by a team of dogs]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1991.048.203
[man and child with two horses plowing field, buildings in background]
Collection: B1991.048 Dr_ H_E_ Auringer Collection
B1989.016.2058.16
Season's Greetings (Christmas Cards 1939) [Christmas card mat with sketch of man with boat near cache, with photograph of musher and dog team stopped on winter trail. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.018a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [from verso of print photograph: “Broadway, Ruby, Alaska. A typical mining camp business street”] [street view of Ruby; mud street, firewood at right; wood boardwalks, cabins; structures; men walking along boardwalk, street; automobile; possible horse cart; businesses: L'aundry; Ruby Bakery and Cafe; A. Haarvei Outfitter & Grocer; possible Music Store; Post Office; The Senate; Baths; Dentist; banners hung over street; flagpoles and flags; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.018b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide] [from verso of print photograph: “Broadway, Ruby, Alaska. A typical mining camp business street”] [street view of Ruby; mud street, firewood at right; wood boardwalks, cabins; structures; men walking along boardwalk, street; automobile; possible horse cart; businesses: L'aundry; Ruby Bakery and Cafe; A. Haarvei Outfitter & Grocer; possible Music Store; Post Office; The Senate; Baths; Dentist; banners hung over street; flagpoles and flags; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1334
PE1 Eskimos in the Far north with centuries-old customs, depend more on modern aviation than any other Americans. (Eskimos by plane) [children, adults, people gather near airplane, likely Stinson SR-5A Special, NC-13 (obstructed number), parkas, kuspuks, mukluks, water, possibly ice in background; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2007.005.4.184
November 1931. Fishing. Smelt in the foreground. The baskets are made by the natives [sic] women. [three men, sled dogs, grass storage bags]
Collection: B2007.005 Martin Family
B2018.023.023a
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [beach scene: men and woman stand near boats, and possible intestine (foreground); boats are upturned and elevated; structures in distance; hand painted]
Collection: B2018.023
B2018.023.023b
Curtis & Miller, Commercial Photographers; 625 Colman Block, Seattle [verso of slide: beach scene: men and woman stand near boats, and possible intestine (foreground); boats are upturned and elevated; structures in distance; hand painted]
Collection: B2018.023
B1983.091.S1536.2
(JackPainter Covering N.C.A. for Cinemascope)(Wells Choice, floatplane and men with Camera)
Keywords: camera, fisherman, fishing, film, documentary filming
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Stock
B2015.008.258
3_6 92425 Port Wells, Alaska dartmouth Glacier from Coghill Flats
Keywords: glaciers, prince william sound, college fiord, skiff, marsh, coghill flats
Collection: B2015.008